Frosty the Snowman was alive as he could be, suggesting inherent limits on his capacity to BE alive. A hell of which we can only begin to conceive.

By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

Trump wants the Kennedy Center to be named after him. And DC’s football stadium. And Dulles Airport. And the WH ballroom. He also wants his face on both sides of a commemorative legal-tender coin, and his White House has made official inquiries into adding Trump to Mt. Rushmore. Subtle it is not.

May the odds be ever in your favor

Oh my god…

It's the most time of the year

This is very good. "Anti-alarmists invariably conflate talking in a calm tone with being rational. Any expression of fear or anger from Cassandras is proof they’re not to be taken seriously."

You and your volcanic notions

The hypocrisy of the networks carrying this speech but turning down far more substantive speeches from Biden and Obama is off the charts. There was zero news in this speech which merited primetime coverage by broadcasters. Absolutely zero.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Do you know how insane an idea has to be to make Al Roker go political?

Absolute worst part of being an adult is that you need to have a dinner plan every day

Is it really an "immigration crackdown" when they're targeting citizens?

Footnote from an employment lawyer: the landmark case in the Second Circuit allowing workers to sue corporate owners personally for wage violations was against Catsimatidis, whose actions were so egregious that the Court found it unconscionable that he could avoid personal liability.

“It’s called separation of powers—we separate you from your powers!” a 1973 political cartoon from Herb Block still works for today

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

The plot has been fully lost. Here's hoping we find it again.

Live chess

More troubling, the Post discovers that Google Gemini is using the name of the AP’s incredibly talented Chris Pizzello (someone I went to college with) to give its slop authenticity (or perhaps because the AP is licensing Chris’s work?) But rather than make that the lead, it’s a passing thought

Question for the legal nerds: Can you file a Rule 28(j) letter with a federal judge based on a magazine profile? Asking for everyone being vindictively prosecuted.

Jared Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project. By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

Good back-to-back post combo.

The amount of money Meta made from Chinese scam ads last year is more than double Reddit's entire business. Have fun on Instagram today!

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the end of the Pax Americana, yesterday in Munich, Germany. “Dear friends, the decades of the Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany, as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that.

I see the folks over at Polymarkets will allow you to bet on the use of a nuclear weapon. What are we doing here?

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

The guy who offered a bounty to anyone who could provide proof of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating dogs -- and then offered as evidence a video of Congolese immigrants in Dayton, Ohio eating chicken -- has opinions about the right's "conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts."

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

(doing a stupid maneuver) this works too. It’s another way to do it

The malicious compliance aspect of this is that students can apparently now submit a complaint against every professor in the university and shut the whole place down indefinitely.

In the words of John Lennon, the “Happy Xmas” War is over… I guess

All is in turmoil.

DHS published data claiming to show that it is "starting with the worst of the worst" immigrants. I analyzed the data: DHS has classified just 4% of ICE arrests as the "worst", most for nonviolent offenses, and hundreds for minor crimes like drug possession, traffic infractions, and illegal entry.

The entire litigation tactic of the DOJ these days is the litigation tactic Trump has always used: delay, attrit, obfuscate, avoid substance at all costs. Makes sense given that the DOJ is pretty much controlled by his former personal lawyers.

We have reached the “begging us to come back” stage of X’s decline

Scoop: Activists fighting to shut down operating wind energy facilities have now filed a lawsuit to force the government to heavily scrutinize eagle deaths from three projects in Wyoming. How? Through public records requests. Targeting wind farms via FOIA reviews. #greensky #energysky

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

White House reporters can no longer stay silent or supine when Trump attacks a colleague as “piggy,” “nasty” or “obnoxious.” And they can do it by asking, as many times as it takes, another version of the question that triggered him in the first place. My latest via CJR www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

Via Andrea Tinker: A University of Alabama alumni group has hit a fundraising goal for two student magazines -- one covering women, one covering Black culture and lifestyle -- to resume publication. UA suspended them last week, claiming they ran afoul of the Trump administration's anti-DEI polices.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

The impact of ICE arrests is extending into America's child care system: It's reducing the number of immigrant child care workers available — and prompting U.S. mothers with young children to leave their jobs as they scramble for stable care. 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE